La relation complexe entre Maléfique et Aurore alors qu'elles font face à de nouvelles menaces pour leur pays magique.La relation complexe entre Maléfique et Aurore alors qu'elles font face à de nouvelles menaces pour leur pays magique.La relation complexe entre Maléfique et Aurore alors qu'elles font face à de nouvelles menaces pour leur pays magique.
- Nommé pour 1 oscar
- 1 victoire et 11 nominations au total
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- AnecdotesReleased on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the original La Belle au bois dormant (1959).
- GaffesDiaval appears uncomfortable with being served poultry, presumably due to him actually being a raven. However, ravens do sometimes eat other birds, so he shouldn't have an issue with it.
- Citations
Diaval: Mistress.
Maleficent: What?
Diaval: I have a little bit of news.
Maleficent: Well, on with it.
Diaval: It's nothing of any real consequence, and it's certainly no reason to overreact. It's just that... Prince Phillip has, um...
Maleficent: Disappeared?
Diaval: [chuckles] No. No, Phillip has...
Maleficent: Yellow fever? No, wait--leprosy!
Diaval: No, Mistress. Prince Phillip has asked Aurora if, she'll become his...
Maleficent: *Don't* - ruin my morning!
[flies away to try and talk Aurora out of Phillip's marriage proposal]
Diaval: Mistress, please! Stay calm!
- Générique farfeluOn the international trailers, against a daytime sky, we see Maleficent's castle in the 2011 Disney logo. The camera zooms in and later tilts 90° counterclockwise. The US, Canadian, and YouTube versions of the trailer still use the normal logo. Meanwhile on the actual film, as the 2011 Disney logo finishes, the camera moves in an upper right direction, panning away from the logo.
- Autres versionsThe film's IMAX release presented the film open-matte, at an aspect ratio of 1.90:1, meaning there was more picture information visible in the top and bottom of the frame than in normal theaters and on home video.
- ConnexionsFeatured in AniMat's Crazy Cartoon Cast: Maleficent: Mistress of Lies (2019)
- Bandes originalesYou Can't Stop the Girl
Written by Bebe Rexha (as Bleta Rexha), Alex Schwartz, Joe Khajadourian, Michael Pollack, Nate Cyphert, Evan Sult, Aaron Huffman, Jeff Lin, and Sean Nelson
Orchestral Arrangement by Geoff Zanelli
Produced by The Futuristics
Performed by Bebe Rexha
Courtesy of Warner Records
[The closing credits song]
Angelina Jolie continues to be all sharp-cheekboned perfection as Maleficent. We were afraid that she might phone in it given that this is a sequel, but she still appears to relish the role. Not only does she gets numerous fabulous costume changes, Maleficent goes on a journey of discovering, getting acquainted with her people and learning about their customs and beliefs. There is a conflict between her allegiance to her fae kin and to Aurora, which gives the powerful character something to struggle with.
Much of the film works because of Michelle Pfeiffer. Casting her opposite Jolie was an inspired move. The early promotional materials tried to hide it, but there's no point beating about the bush now - Queen Ingrith is the "Mistress of Evil" of the title. Pfeiffer plays the villain with sneer and swagger hidden beneath a regal façade, with shades of her witch character from Stardust sometimes visible. Coming off like a PG-rated Cersei Lannister, it's an absolute hoot.
There's a lot going on in the plot of the movie, so it is to writers Linda Woolverton, Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue's credit that the movie never loses sight of its emotional core: the relationship between Maleficent and Aurora. They might not be on the same page for much of the film, but it cannot be questioned that Maleficent deeply loves and cares for Aurora, something Ingrith winds up exploiting.
Just as in the first film, the show is stolen by Sam Riley as Diaval, Maleficent's shape-shifting sidekick. Riley manages to be both cool and
While the visuals are often mesmerising and transporting, the film does lean very heavily on computer-generated imagery. This is expected of a fantasy adventure film, but some of the characters do seem unnatural. The Fairy Godmothers Knotgrass (Imelda Staunton), Thistlewit (Juno Temple) and Flittle (Lesley Manville) return from the first film, and their almost-human facial features sometimes cross over into the dreaded uncanny valley.
Prince Philip is boring, but then again, this is something inherent in the source material. Brenton Thwaites, who was busy filming Season 2 of Titans, is replaced by Harris Dickinson, who constantly seems a little bit confused and flat. However, this is also a sign that the film understands that Philip is not the main character, and that he does not have to be the hero to save the day. Chiwetel Ejiofor is almost completely wasted in a relatively small supporting role.
The action sequences in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil are grand and expansive. Like most big-budget high fantasy projects these days, it seems more than a little derivative of Game of Thrones, but the big battle scenes are dynamic and lively. The movie gets surprisingly dark, with the villain's plot involving genocide by way of biological warfare. However, the movie still has a bounce and a sense of humour to it and is never too self-serious the way something like Snow White and the Huntsman and its sequel The Huntsman: Winter's War sometimes were. The big climactic battle takes place in broad daylight, which is a relative rarity in films of this type.
This film has a completely different design team than the first but maintains a sense of visual continuity while also giving us something new. The costumes by Ellen Mirojnick are stunning, especially Maleficent's battle outfit which is a sexy, elegant body paint-style number. Production designer Patrick Tatopolous creates some gorgeous fantasy environments, chief of which is the hidden fae sanctuary comprising mini-environments which have different climates.
Some of it may be overly familiar, but there's still more creativity to this than to Disney's live-action remakes which are obligated to retrace the steps of their animated forebears. Angelina Jolie and Michelle Pfeiffer pitted against each other is worth the price of admission.
- jeddjong
- 15 oct. 2019
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- Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
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Box-office
- Budget
- 185 000 000 $ US (estimation)
- Brut – États-Unis et Canada
- 113 929 605 $ US
- Fin de semaine d'ouverture – États-Unis et Canada
- 36 948 713 $ US
- 20 oct. 2019
- Brut – à l'échelle mondiale
- 491 730 089 $ US
- Durée1 heure 59 minutes
- Couleur
- Mixage
- Rapport de forme
- 2.39 : 1